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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 81 · permalink

Laboratory

41:23–41:50 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:2441:24Frame at 41:3841:38

Play from 41:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 56 · shots 111–112. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
laboratory (laboratory, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, holding a small object visible, audible
  • man in lighter suit, facing p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The man in the dark suit holds a small object while speaking to the other man. [frame:2]
Seen
large cylindrical machine [frame:1], small rectangular object held by p1 [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: scientific threat, human vulnerability, countermeasure discussion; style notes: high-contrast black and white, medium two-shot framing, studio lighting with deep shadows

Two men in suits converse in a dimly lit interior with machinery visible; one holds a small object. A transcript line mentions an invisible gas and deep coma, while another refers to 'our rider man' as a countermeasure.

“with this invisible gas, dies under the sea ray. - You mean the human beings? - Oh, man first could go into a deep coma.” 41:28 · “That would stop one or two men, but more would keep coming. You seem to forget our rider man.” 41:43 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from The Phantom Creeps (1939) at 41:24 (passage 41:23–41:50); US record: No renewal found

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